Talks With Israelis and Palestinians
Make Strong Progress, Clinton Says

By

Robert S. Greenberger Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 29, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- President Clinton put the U.S. back in the middle of Middle East peacemaking, meeting at the White House with Israeli and Palestinian leaders and asking them to return in October for intensive negotiations.

After an 18-month stalemate, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat still haven't completed the tortuous process of reaching an interim agreement. But Mr. Clinton declared Monday that "we have made progress on the path to peace. There has been a significant...